They live by night

The Resource They live by night
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They live by night
Statement of responsibility
an RKO Radio picture ; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; a Dore Schary presentation ; screen play by Charles Schnee ; adaptation by Nicholas Ray ; produced by John Houseman ; directed by Nicholas Ray
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  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come"--Container
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Credits note
Director of photography, George E. Diskant ; film editor, Sherman Todd ; art directors, Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Herman ; music, Leigh Harline
Language note
In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
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Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig, Will Wright, Marie Bryant, Ian Wolfe, William Phipps, Harry Harvey
Runtime
95
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
880
Technique
live action
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